Isla Mujeres Photos Posted

We could step out the back door of our place on Isla Mujeres and walk straight out to the ocean. This is the view from our place, looking south.



Night swimming in front of our place.



Our favorite place to eat: Baseball Tacos. It was this wacky little taco stand that was located under the bleachers of a baseball field. It was outside the main town center and in kind of sketchy part of the island, but had the best tacos ever, as evidenced by all the locals streaming through the place.



The men loved Sarah wherever we went. At this particular place, some dude sent mariachis over to play for her two or three separate times.



Some members of the Mayan family we stayed with in Merida.



Our sleeping quarters at Tia Coty's house.



They brought us to this little coastal town outside of Merida. We walked along the beach and bought elote and other tasty street foods from the vendors.



The family told us Chichen Itza is too crowded and since the pyramid has been declared a national monument you can't climb on it anymore. They took us to another site called Mayapan, and as they predicted, the place was deserted and super awesome.





We're Mayan warriors, get it?



Climbing down is always the hardest part.



Little lunch shack in a village.



Our transportation into the jungle.





There were cenotes (sea caves) deep in the jungle. They were incredible.





That blue blur is me diving. It was so scary and thrilling. I'm sure that, ah, all of the five-year-olds who jumped in after me thought so too.





On Isla, there is a sanctuary where they hatch sea turtles, help them grow, and eventually release them into the wild. The itty bitty baby turtles were so adorable.



Summ has these artisic visions, you see (see Anna with Dogs, below). This is one of them. She also goaded an entire family into laying down on the dock above the turtles--including a mom who had a baby strapped to her--in order to compose one particular photographic vision. It was so hard for me not to die laughing.





I may have had a lot to drink this night, but I'm not the one who snapped the blurry photo. For some reason these dogs decided to befriend me. This was the Night of the Necklaces.



I spent a lot of time reading.